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THE  NATIONAL 
INDIAN  ASSOCIATION 


TO  AID  IN  CIVILIZATION,  TEACH  INDUSTRY.  AND 
GIVE  RELIGIOUS  INSTRUCTION  TO  THE 
INDIANS  OF  OUR  COUNTRY 


ORIGINATED,  1879  FULLY  ORGANIZED,  1881 

INCORPORATED,  1887 


156  FIFTH  AVENUE,  NEW  YORK 


HE  activities  of  The  National 
Indian  Association  among  our 
American  Indians  include 


RELIGIOUS  WORK 


Direct  undenominational  teaching  of  re- 
ligious truths  in  tribes  where,  almost  with- 
out exception,  no  Christian  instruction  is 
given  by  any  other  organization. 

The  Association  has  done  this  pioneer 
missionary  work  in  more  than  fifty  tribes, 
or  separated  parts  of  tribes. 


EDUCATIONAL  AND  HUMANITARIAN 
WORK 

Helping  to  right  political  wrongs;  gath- 
ering of  Indian  children  into  schools;  stim- 
ulating and  preparing  capable  Indians  for 
wise  leadership  among  their  people;  loans 
of  money  to  Indians  to  enable  them  to 
build  homes  or  to  carry  on  business. 

The  Association  has  done  a large  and 
influential  educational  work,  and  through 
its  Home  Building  and  Loan  Department 
has  enabled  Indians  to  build  homes  which 
have  become  civilizing  centers  of  family 
life.  It  has  also  made  loans  to  Indians  for 
the  purchase  of  implements  of  labor  or  for 
stock  needed  to  begin  some  useful  and  pay- 
ing industry.  By  such  methods  the  As- 


sociation  seeks  to  put  the  Indian  in  a posi- 
tion to  earn  his  own  living  and  to  become 
self-supporting  and  self-reliant.  It  has 
maintained  library,  temperance,  hospital, 
and  other  departments;  trained  Indian 
young  women  as  nurses,  and  assisted  In- 
dian young  men  and  women  to  obtain 
training  as  physicians  and  teachers,  some 
of  whom  have  long  been  working  to  help 
their  own  people. 

INDUSTRIAL  WORK 

Various  industries  have  been  successfully 
introduced  among  the  tribes,  such  as  bee- 
culture,  dairy  produce,  cattle  raising,  poul- 
try raising,  vegetable  growing,  and  agri- 
culture. The  Association  also  encourages 
the  Indian  arts  of  basketry  and  weaving, — 
finding  markets  in  many  cases  for  the 
articles  made. 

THE  POLICY  OF  THE  ASSOCIATION 
is  to  give  its  missions  when  well  estab- 
lished, together  with  the  property  gath- 
ered, to  the  permanent  care  of  denomina- 
tional boards  asking  for  them.  In  all 
more  than  fifty  buildings  have  been  erected 
and  the  missions  thus  transferred.  In  these 
mission  transfers  all  the  property  gathered 
is  given,  not  sold,  to  the  society  taking  the 
mission. 


It  is  significant  that  wherever  Christian 
missionaries  have  gone  to  reside  among 
the  Indians  and  have  taken  to  them  the 
gospel  message,  they  have  won  their  al- 
legiance and  have  found  opportunities  for 
service.  From  the  time  when,  in  1884, 
our  Association  began  its  mission  work 
among  the  Pawnees,  the  Poncas  and  the 
Otoes  in  the  then  Indian  Territory  down 
to  the  present  time,  this  fact  stands  out 
conspicuously — the  Indian  is  responsive 
to  Christian  teaching.  The  fact  that  there 
are  50,000  Indians  in  our  land  to-day  prac- 
tically pagan  does  not  refute  this  state- 
ment. The  fact  does  prove,  however,  that 
the  Christians  of  America  have  been  slow 
to  discharge  their  duty  to  the  original  in- 
habitants of  their  country,  and  it  also 
proves  that  the  evangelization  of  the  In- 
dians is  not  a dead  but  a very  live  issue 
today.  There  is  a danger  of  overlooking 
this  issue  owing  to  many  pressing  questions 
constantly  arising  in  Indian  affairs  It  is 
important  that  the  property  rights  of  the 
Indian  should  be  safeguarded,  his  health 
preserved,  adequate  educational  facilities 
provided  for  him  and  opportunity  to  work 
given  him,  but  the  question  of  paramount 
importance  today  in  Indian  life  is  that  of 


Christian  training — the  development  of 
character. 

The  Association  will  begin  missions 
among  some  of  the  tribes  still  destitute  of 
religious  instruction  as  soon  as  needed 
funds  are  received.  We  ask  you  to  help 
us  in  this  work  of  carrying  to  these  neglect- 
ed Indians  the  good  news  of  God’s  love  and 
Christ’s  redemption,— a work  which  must 
surely  appeal  to  every  American  patriot 
and  Christian. 

The  Secretary  will  be  glad  to  furnish 
literature  and  answer  inquiries  regarding 
the  Association’s  work.  Cheques  may  be 
made  payable  to  him  or  to  Anna  Bennett, 
Treasurer. 

JOHN  W.  CLARK 

Corresponding  and  Executive  Secretary 
Room  931,  156  Fifth  Avenue 
New  York 


Annual  Membership $ 1.00 

Life  “ 10.00 

Honorary  “ 50.00 


Patrons  are  made  such  by  the  payment  of  $25.00 
within  the  year. 


The  Indian’s  Friend,  now  in  its  twen ty -seven tli 
year,  is  published  by  the  Association  monthly  (ex- 
cept June  and  August).  Price  50  cents  a year. 


HONORARY  VICE-PRESIDENTS 


Mrs.  Woodrow  Wilson,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mrs.  William  Howard  Taft,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Mrs.  Theodore  Roosevelt,  Oyster  Bay,  N.  Y. 
Mrs.  Thomas  J.  Preston,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Hughes,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  George  Dana  Boardman,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Mrs.  Joseph  G.  Darlington, 

Mrs.  Joshua  R.  Jones, 

Mrs.  Eliot  F.  Shepard, 

Mrs.  John  D.  Rockefeller, 

Mrs.  S.  Young  Baldwin, 

Miss  Alice  M.  Longfellow, 


New  York  City. 

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Cambridge,  Mass. 


ADVISORY  BOARD 

Right  Rev.  Frederick  Courtney,  D.D., 

New  York  City. 

Right  Rev.  Morris  W.  Leibert,  D.D., 

New  York  City. 

Rev.  Lyman  Abbott,  D.D., 

Rev.  George  L.  Spining,  D.D.,  S.  Orange,  N.  J. 
Rev.  William  Hayes  Ward,  D.D.,New  York  City. 
Rev.  Anson  P.  Atterbury,  D.D.,  “ “ “ 

Daniel  Smiley,  Esq.,  Mohonk  Lake,  N.  Y. 

Merrill  E.  Gates,  LL.D.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Herbert  Welsh,  Esq.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Rev.  James  M.  Bruce,  New  York  City. 

Chaplain  D.  H.  Tribou, 

U.  S.  N.,  Washington,  D.  C. 


OFFICERS  OF 


The  National  Indian  Association 

FOR  1914 
Honorary  President 

MRS.  AMELIA  STONE  QUINTON 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

President 

MRS.  OTTO  IIEINIGKE 
Bay  Ridge,  N.  Y. 

Vice-Presidents 

Northern 

MRS.  EDWARD  M.  WISTAR 
Germantown,  Pa. 

Eastern 

MRS.  SARA  T.  KINNEY 
Hartford,  Conn. 

Southern 

MRS.  WILLIAM  H.  CHANY 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Western 

MRS.  JOHN  BIDWELL 
Chico,  Cal. 

Corresponding  and  Executive  Secretary 
JOHN  W.  CLARK 
156  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City 

Recording  Secretary 
MISS  SARAH  I.  BUCKLEY 
Morristown,  N.  J. 

Treasurer 

MISS  ANNA  BENNETT 
156  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City 

Auditor 

MRS.  WILLIAM  H.  LAIRD 
New  York  City 


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